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Top 5 Bingeable SCARY STORIES Death Trap Edition · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. Jacob Cockle always loved the water.
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Speaker 1: He grew up in a town called Penzance in the UK,
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Speaker 1: and he spent virtually all of his time surfing at
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Speaker 1: one of their beaches. By the time he was ten
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Speaker 1: years old, he started skipping school to go surfing, and
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Speaker 1: started getting in a lot of trouble for that. But
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Speaker 1: despite his parents and his teacher's frustrations with him, there
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Speaker 1: was always one person that had his back and totally
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Speaker 1: understood him, and that was his older sister Grace. They
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Speaker 1: were so close they developed their own special language they
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Speaker 1: talked to each other in, and Jacob used it so
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Speaker 1: so much that people actually thought he had a speech problem.
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Speaker 1: But when Jacob was seventeen, his life was turned upside
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Speaker 1: down when Grace was diagnosed with a brain tumor and
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Speaker 1: she died very quickly after that. This had a profound
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Speaker 1: impact on Jacob. It was like his entire view of
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Speaker 1: the world had totally changed overnight, and he began to
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Speaker 1: believe that Grace's energy had been transferred to him and
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Speaker 1: that it was now his duty to live for the
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Speaker 1: two of them. And so what this translated to is
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Speaker 1: Jacob began taking lots and lots of risks because he
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Speaker 1: felt like he didn't want to pass up opportunities. He
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Speaker 1: wanted to live life to the fullest, even if it
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Speaker 1: was a little bit reckless. In addition to loving the water,
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Speaker 1: Jacob also loved photography, and so with this new risk
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Speaker 1: taking attitude, he began doing these water based stunts and
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Speaker 1: filming himself in the process, things like surfing in storms,
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Speaker 1: or leaping off of buildings into fairly shallow water, or
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Speaker 1: diving to dangerous depths on a breathold. And Jacob loved it.
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Speaker 1: He loved taking these risks, he loved filming himself taking
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Speaker 1: these risks, and so he decided this was going to
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Speaker 1: be his career. He was going to be a world
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Speaker 1: famous photographer specialized in dangerous photos and films. And so
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Speaker 1: Jacob got this big piece of paper and he put
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Speaker 1: it on his bedroom wall, and with black marker, he
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Speaker 1: wrote himself a reminder, I will become a world famous
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Speaker 1: photographer and I will let nothing stand in my way. Basically,
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Speaker 1: he was prepared to go to any length to get
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Speaker 1: the shots that he needed to get, and this intense
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Speaker 1: attitude worked. By his early twenties, he had won major
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Speaker 1: awards with National Geographic and The Sunday Times. He was
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Speaker 1: also a regular contributor to surf magazines, where he almost
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Speaker 1: always got the cover shot. Most of his award winning
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Speaker 1: pictures were taken of the sea in its most violent
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Speaker 1: and turbulent forms, like the shot of a fishing boat
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Speaker 1: coming back into port in a large swell, won a
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Speaker 1: competition that put it all over the London Underground, or
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Speaker 1: this shot he took, which is off the coast of Sumatra,
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Speaker 1: out in the middle of the ocean as Jacob and
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Speaker 1: his friend are right in front of the supertanker that's
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Speaker 1: bearing down on both of them, and his friend is
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Speaker 1: surfing off the wake caused by the supertanker. So a
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Speaker 1: very dangerous picture to take, but it won an award
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Speaker 1: that was run by The Guardian. The money Jacob earned
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Speaker 1: from these competitions he spent on improving his photography equipment.
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Speaker 1: If he was ever given a physical prize like a
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Speaker 1: brand new TV, he would just give it away to
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Speaker 1: his friends, because all Jacob was really focused on was
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Speaker 1: going out and living life to the fullest and taking
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Speaker 1: crazy chances and capturing those experiences on film. And one
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Speaker 1: crazy experience that he had always wanted to capture on
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Speaker 1: film actually took place right in his hometown of Penzance.
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Speaker 1: A very strong whirlpool would appear a few times a
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Speaker 1: year in a harbor that was right near his childhood home.
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Speaker 1: It was just a quirk of engineering designed to keep
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Speaker 1: the harbor from silting up. At high tide. The water
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Speaker 1: would come in and it would hit this quay wall,
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Speaker 1: and at the bottom of the quaywall was a tunnel
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Speaker 1: that fed into this other pool, and so that would
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Speaker 1: fill up with water. And then when the tide retreated
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Speaker 1: during low tide, the water in the harbor would drain out,
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Speaker 1: and the water from the pool would slowly filter out
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Speaker 1: back through this tunnel, pushing the silt and sand out
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Speaker 1: of the harbor. But sometimes when the water came into
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Speaker 1: the harbor during high tide, it would come in so
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Speaker 1: quickly it would build up against the qua and it
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Speaker 1: wouldn't drain fast enough down through that tunnel into the pool.
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Speaker 1: And so just like in your bathtub, if you pull
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Speaker 1: the plug when it's full, you'll see a whirlpool form
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Speaker 1: as the water is sucked down the drain. The same
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Speaker 1: thing would happen at this quaywall. As all this water
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Speaker 1: is being forced down and sucked through this pipe, it
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Speaker 1: would create this huge whirlpool that you could see on
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Speaker 1: the surface from the quaywall. And even though this whirlpool
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Speaker 1: only formed a couple of times a year, it was
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Speaker 1: so dangerous. There were caution signs all around the edge
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Speaker 1: of the harbor and on the quaywall telling people to
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Speaker 1: stay out of the water. But in his mid twenties,
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Speaker 1: Jacob ignored those signs and he started jumping into this
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Speaker 1: whirlpool every time it formed, and he was able to
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Speaker 1: kind of swirl around the outside and he would film
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Speaker 1: it inside and just on top, and he would upload
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Speaker 1: his videos to YouTube and they would get millions and
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Speaker 1: millions of views. They were totally beautiful and terrifying at
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Speaker 1: the same time. On May twenty eighth, twenty thirteen, when
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Speaker 1: Jacob was twenty eight years old, he noticed that the
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Speaker 1: whirlpool was back in his hometown and he wanted to
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Speaker 1: go out and film inside of it again, and so
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Speaker 1: he ran to his friend David's house and he asked
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Speaker 1: him to hey, come down to the harbor and fill
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Speaker 1: me inside of this whirlpool. And so by the time
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Speaker 1: David got his stuff together and made it to the quaywall,
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Speaker 1: he looked down and he saw Jacob was already in
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Speaker 1: the whirlpools swirling around. David also noticed that Jacob was
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Speaker 1: wearing a rubber horsehead mask, and he told David the
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Speaker 1: reason he was doing it is because it would be
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Speaker 1: more eye catching on YouTube. So David leaned over the
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Speaker 1: wall and began filming Jacob as he swirled around this
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Speaker 1: whirlpool and his horse mask, making nayg sounds. And at
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Speaker 1: some point Jacob stopped and he swam away from the whirlpool.
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Speaker 1: But you could see the pull of the whirlpool was
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Speaker 1: very strong, because even with flippers on, Jacob really struggled
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Speaker 1: to swim away from this whirlpool. But he was in
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Speaker 1: good spirits about it, and he was laughing with David
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Speaker 1: and saying how when he first jumped in, he was
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Speaker 1: actually pretty scared of this whirlpool. It's definitely the strongest
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Speaker 1: one he had been in over at this quay wall,
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Speaker 1: and David would say, yeah, I can tell from up
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Speaker 1: here that one's really strong. For the next ten or
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Speaker 1: fifteen minutes, David and Jacob kind of joked back and
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Speaker 1: forth about the strength of the whirlpool, and Jacob would
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Speaker 1: put his mask back down and swirl around inside of
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Speaker 1: the whirlpool, then get out again. And then towards the
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Speaker 1: end of the video, Jacob yells up to David that
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Speaker 1: he only has one more thing in mind that he
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Speaker 1: wants to do with the whirlpool. He wants to dive
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Speaker 1: down below and film it from underneath, and so he
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Speaker 1: asked David to hand down his camera. David hands it
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Speaker 1: down and you see Jacob adjusting his camera and then
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Speaker 1: he dives below the surface to begin filming this whirlpool.
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Speaker 1: And so David's up on the top watching Jacob, and
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Speaker 1: he's very familiar with Jacob. He knows he does things
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Speaker 1: like this, he knows he has a great breath hold.
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Speaker 1: But after a couple of minutes, when he doesn't re emerge,
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Speaker 1: David gets scared and starts yelling for him, And when
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Speaker 1: he still doesn't come up, David turns and runs to
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Speaker 1: the other side of the quay wall and looks over
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Speaker 1: that railing towards the pool side, and you can see
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Speaker 1: the water is still rushing into the pool, and there's
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Speaker 1: no sign of Jacob, and so he ran back and
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Speaker 1: forth a couple of times, and he didn't see Jacob
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Speaker 1: until finally he went back to the pool side and
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Speaker 1: he saw Jacob down below. He was lying face down
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Speaker 1: in the water, and so David ran down and waited
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Speaker 1: out to him, but it was already too late. Jacob
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Speaker 1: had drowned. The reason Jacob was able to swirl around
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Speaker 1: at the top of this whirlpool and not get pulled
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Speaker 1: under is because he had a wetsuit on, and wetsuits
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Speaker 1: are buoyant, but as you go underneath the water, deeper
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Speaker 1: you go, the water pressure pushes against your wetsuit and
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Speaker 1: it reduces the overall buoyancy of your wetsuit. And so
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Speaker 1: when Jacob dove down into this whirlpool, the pressure pushed
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Speaker 1: against the suit, he lost his buoyancy, and then he
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Speaker 1: got caught up in the current of this very strong whirlpool.
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Speaker 1: Then he was pulled slowly down to the bottom, and
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Speaker 1: so he probably thought as much as he could to
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Speaker 1: try to get out of there, but he couldn't and
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Speaker 1: eventually was forced into that tunnel underneath the quay wall,
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Speaker 1: and he was under there until he drowned, and then
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Speaker 1: he was eventually spit out the other side. From a
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Speaker 1: young age, Carry O'Connor had an intense love of learning.
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Speaker 1: When she learned how to read, her parents had to
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Speaker 1: bribe her to get her to put her book down
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Speaker 1: so she would go outside and play with the other
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Speaker 1: While Carrie loved to learn about all things, her favorite
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Speaker 1: subject was French culture, and so she began devouring all
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Speaker 1: things French, and then in middle school she began studying
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Speaker 1: the language, and by high school she was nearly fluent
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Speaker 1: and taking college level French courses. Carrie would go on
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Speaker 1: to earn several degrees in French, including a PhD, and
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Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen she put that PhD to use when
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Speaker 1: she was offered a full time professorship at Boston University.
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Speaker 1: She eagerly accepted the role. After her first full year
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Speaker 1: at BU, she decided it was time to get an
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Speaker 1: apartment that was closer to campus. So in August of
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty, shortly after Carrie's thirty eighth birthday, she along
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Speaker 1: with her two beloved cats, moved just ten minutes away
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Speaker 1: from Boston University into an old apartment building on a
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Speaker 1: busy street, with her apartments still filled with unopened moving
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Speaker 1: boxes and furniture wrapped in plastic. Carrie broke out her
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Speaker 1: laptop and enthusiastically wrote an email to all of her
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Speaker 1: students for the year titled The Joy of Learning French.
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Speaker 1: In it, her students saw her passion for the French
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Speaker 1: language and how excited she was about the upcoming academic year.
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Speaker 1: A few weeks later, on Monday, September fourteenth, Carrie was
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Speaker 1: back at her apartment building after classes, and she had
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Speaker 1: just purchased a brand new piece of furniture that she
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Speaker 1: wanted to haul up to her apartment. This piece of
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Speaker 1: furniture was not actually assembled. All the parts in the
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Speaker 1: directions were inside of this box that was seven feet tall,
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Speaker 1: one foot wide and weighed just under eighty pounds. And
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Speaker 1: so Carrie got this huge box out of her car
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Speaker 1: at street level and then hauled it all the way
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Speaker 1: through the front doors of her apartment building into the
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Speaker 1: first floor lobby for she leaned it up against the
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Speaker 1: wall and then pressed the call button for the elevator.
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Speaker 1: To understand what happens next, you need to have a
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Speaker 1: basic understanding of how Carrie's elevator worked. Once the elevator
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Speaker 1: car arrived on your floor, you would slide open this
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Speaker 1: big door called the hoistway door, and on the other
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Speaker 1: side you would see the elevator car, and on the
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Speaker 1: car itself would be yet another door. This door is
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Speaker 1: called the car gate. This metal accordion style door would
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Speaker 1: also be slid to the side manually, but unlike the
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Speaker 1: hoistway door, the car gate had to be shut all
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Speaker 1: the way in order for the elevator to move between floors.
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Speaker 1: So when the light dinged in the first floor lobby
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Speaker 1: above Carrie's head, she opened up the hoistway door, and
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Speaker 1: then she reached inside and slid open the car gate.
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Speaker 1: And then she grabbed her package and began trying to
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Speaker 1: push it inside of the elevator car. The only way
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Speaker 1: it looked like she could fit this huge package inside
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Speaker 1: of the elevator was if she got it in there
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Speaker 1: at an angle standing up. But no matter how hard
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Speaker 1: she pushed and pulled on it, she just could not
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Speaker 1: get it to go inside. And so while Carrie's doing this,
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Speaker 1: another tenant happened to walk in the front doors of
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Speaker 1: the apartment building and they saw Carrie struggling and At first,
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Speaker 1: he just walked past Kerrie and started going up the
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Speaker 1: stairs towards his own apartment. But he stopped and he
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Speaker 1: turned and he just said to Carrie, hey, I don't
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Speaker 1: think it's a good idea to keep doing what you're doing.
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Speaker 1: That package looks like it's too heavy to be on
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Speaker 1: that elevator. The elevator's really old, and you might trip
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Speaker 1: a censor and it might start moving before you're ready.
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Speaker 1: You know, we've had problems with that elevator before. It's
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Speaker 1: just not worth the risk. And so Carrie, who's already
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Speaker 1: pretty committed to doing this, she hesitates for a second
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Speaker 1: and just kind of looks at her package and she
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Speaker 1: looks at up at the guy and says, you know what,
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Speaker 1: I'm just going to try one more time to get
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Speaker 1: it inside the elevator. And so Carrie goes back to
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Speaker 1: trying to get it on, and this other tenant hesitates
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Speaker 1: for a second and then decides, okay, I'll help her
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Speaker 1: do it, And so he goes down and he holds
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Speaker 1: open the hoistway door with his hand, and Carrie goes
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Speaker 1: inside of the elevator car and she uses her hip
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Speaker 1: to keep open the car gate and the two of
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Speaker 1: them begin pushing and pulling, and finally they're able to
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Speaker 1: wedge this package at an angle inside of the elevator car.
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Speaker 1: And so Carrie thanks the guy and he says, no problem.
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Speaker 1: He turns and walks up the stairs and he disappears.
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Speaker 1: Once he was gone, Carrie didn't press any of the
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Speaker 1: floor buttons. Instead, she tried to close the car gate
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Speaker 1: over the top of her package, but at the same time,
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Speaker 1: a maintenance worker in the floor below her, which was
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Speaker 1: the basement, hit the call button for the elevator. Unbeknownst
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Speaker 1: to Carrie, the top of her huge package when they
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Speaker 1: wedged it inside, had pressed up against the censor at
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Speaker 1: the top of the doorframe that registers when the cargate
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Speaker 1: has shut, and so when the maintenance worker pressed the
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Speaker 1: call button, because that package was pressing on the setde
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Speaker 1: it tricked the elevator into thinking the gate was shut
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Speaker 1: and secured and now it was time to move, And
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Speaker 1: so the car began to go down, but it only
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Speaker 1: made it a couple of feet before the movement caused
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Speaker 1: the package to slip off of the sensor, causing the
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Speaker 1: elevator to stop. Carrie was most likely very confused, how
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Speaker 1: this car would have moved, considering the car gate was
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Speaker 1: still wide open, but she had bigger problems. She was
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Speaker 1: now trapped between the first floor lobby and the basement,
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Speaker 1: but she didn't panic. Instead, she decided she would just
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Speaker 1: get her package back inside the elevator car and then
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Speaker 1: she would figure out what to do next. The package
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Speaker 1: when it came off, that sensor had fallen forward and
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Speaker 1: was basically jutting out of the elevator, so the top
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Speaker 1: half of it was in the first floor lobby, propped
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Speaker 1: up against the floor of the first floor lobby, and
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Speaker 1: so Carrie turned around so her back was facing outside
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Speaker 1: of the elevator and she got down in a squatting
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Speaker 1: position underneath her package, so her shoulder was up against
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Speaker 1: the package, and then she began pressing it up as
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Speaker 1: hard as she could until she managed to press the
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Speaker 1: package back inside of the car. But again, the top
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Speaker 1: of that package made contact with that sensor that registers
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Speaker 1: whether that gate is shut, and so, believing it was
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Speaker 1: shut and secure, the elevator began moving down again, and
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Speaker 1: this time Carrie, whose back is to the opening of
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Speaker 1: the elevator, she lost her balance and fell backwards out
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Speaker 1: of the elevator into that narrow space between the outside
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Speaker 1: of the elevator and the inside of the elevator shaft. Now,
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Speaker 1: if the elevator had not been moving, she probably could
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Speaker 1: have just crawled back up into the elevator, But unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: her package this time did not slip off the sensor,
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Speaker 1: and so the elevator still believed the gate was shut,
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Speaker 1: and so it kept on moving down. And so as
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Speaker 1: soon as Carrie fell into this narrow space, the movement
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Speaker 1: of the elevator would have kind of sucked her up
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Speaker 1: into that space, crushing her up against the inside of
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Speaker 1: the elevator shaft wall as the car forces its way
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Speaker 1: down past her towards the basement. But the car doesn't
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Speaker 1: even get to the basement. It stops once Carrie is
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Speaker 1: pinned perfectly between the elevator and the elevator shaft walls.
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Speaker 1: When the fire department finally arrived, it was too late.
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Speaker 1: Carrie was already de ceased. On Thanksgiving morning in nineteen hundred,
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Speaker 1: an eighteen year old named Thomas Pedler told his mother
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Speaker 1: that he was going out for a bit, but he'd
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Speaker 1: be back in time for Turkey that afternoon, and then
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Speaker 1: he grabbed his jacket and his coat, and he headed
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Speaker 1: out the door. Thomas lived in a very working class
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Speaker 1: neighborhood in San Francisco, California, where generally speaking, nothing big
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Speaker 1: really ever happened. It was kind of a place where
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Speaker 1: people just worked and that was it. But on this day,
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Speaker 1: something huge was happening in Thomas's neighborhood. The big football
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Speaker 1: game between Stanford University and the University of California was
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Speaker 1: taking place at the stadium in Thomas's district, and they
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Speaker 1: were expecting over twenty thousand people to cram into this stadium,
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Speaker 1: and so Thomas was not about to miss this incredible spectacle,
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Speaker 1: even though he didn't have enough money to buy a ticket,
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Speaker 1: but he knew he would find a way to watch
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Speaker 1: this game. And so Thomas leaves his house and he
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Speaker 1: runs to the stadium, which was not far from his house,
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Speaker 1: and he waited in front of the front gate where
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Speaker 1: all these people are streaming in to go into the stadium.
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Speaker 1: And around eleven am, Thomas's very close friend, Charles, who
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Speaker 1: was also a young man, made his way to the
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Speaker 1: front gate. The two met up and at first their
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Speaker 1: plan was to try to sneak in with the horde
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Speaker 1: of people that were making their way into the stadium.
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Speaker 1: But even though they were still hours away from the
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Speaker 1: opening kickoff of this big game, it was at two
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Speaker 1: thirty PM. The stadium was packed. I mean there was
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Speaker 1: nowhere to sit, There was nowhere to stand. People that
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Speaker 1: had tickets who were going in are looking around thinking,
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Speaker 1: you know, where are we going to watch this game?
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Speaker 1: And so Thomas and Charles are kind of like, well,
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Speaker 1: what's the point of sneaking in if there's nowhere to watch?
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Speaker 1: And so they decided, okay, we need to find another
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Speaker 1: way to watch this game. And so they began looking
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Speaker 1: around and they noticed there was a huge fence that
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Speaker 1: lined the perimeter of the stadium, and they saw there
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Speaker 1: was some people kind of climbed up on this fence
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Speaker 1: trying to get a view down onto the field. And
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Speaker 1: pretty quickly, when Thomas and Charles decided they would try
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Speaker 1: to do that too, they saw that all the good
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Speaker 1: spots on this fence were already taken. The spots that
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Speaker 1: that option as well didn't work. And so Thomas and
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Speaker 1: Charles are frustrated. They're starting to worry that they will
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Speaker 1: not see this big game. But when they walked back
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Speaker 1: over to the front gates of the stadium, they happened
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Speaker 1: to notice across the street was this group of people
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Speaker 1: rushing over to this big white brick factory building and
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Speaker 1: they were literally placing ladders up against the sides of
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Speaker 1: this building and beginning to climb up it. I mean,
17:46
Speaker 1: this is a five story building and they are just
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Speaker 1: basically free climbing the windows and the fire escapes, and
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Speaker 1: Thomas and Charles realized that the top of this factory
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Speaker 1: was flat and provided a perfect view down onto the field.
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Speaker 1: All these people they're trying to get a good seat
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Speaker 1: to watch this game, and so, without any hesitation, Thomas
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Speaker 1: and Charles decide they're going to do that too. So
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Speaker 1: they left the stadium, they ran across the street, and
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Speaker 1: they began climbing up the ladders and climbing the windows
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Speaker 1: and the fire escapes, until finally they made it onto
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Speaker 1: they got up there, there wasn't that many people, and
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Speaker 1: so Thomas and Charles were able to run right over
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Speaker 1: to the front edge of this building and claim a
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Speaker 1: spot with an absolutely perfect view of the game. A
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Speaker 1: couple of hours later, at two thirty PM, when the
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Speaker 1: game actually started, the rooftop that Thomas and Charles were
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Speaker 1: on was now completely packed with people. Hundreds of people
18:41
Speaker 1: have climbed up onto this factory. There were some factory
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Speaker 1: workers down below telling people do not do this, do
18:48
Speaker 1: not climb on top of this factory. It's not safe,
18:51
Speaker 1: but nobody listened to them, and the police either didn't
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Speaker 1: notice this was happening or they didn't care. And so
18:57
Speaker 1: there's all these people that are on this roof. They're
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Speaker 1: all super excited and the game has begun. It's two
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Speaker 1: thirty and as soon as the game started, it was
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Speaker 1: like the crowd in the stadium, which could be heard
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Speaker 1: very easily from this rooftop, just kind of erupted and
19:10
Speaker 1: there were all these bands playing in the stadium. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it was chaos down below, and it really caught on
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Speaker 1: on the roof. All these guys, including Thomas and Charles.
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Speaker 1: They're getting amped about this game. They're singing, they're chanting,
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Speaker 1: they're screaming, they're yelling. I mean, it's total chaos, and
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Speaker 1: Thomas and Charles loved it. But about twenty minutes into
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Speaker 1: the game, as Thomas and Charles are enjoying themselves and
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Speaker 1: the crowd is still going wild. A dull cracking sound
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Speaker 1: could be heard coming from one side of this roof,
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Speaker 1: and so Thomas and Charles they kind of spun around
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Speaker 1: to see where this cracking sound had come from. And
19:44
Speaker 1: when they began looking out across the sea of people,
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Speaker 1: they noticed on the far side of the roof where
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Speaker 1: the sound had kind of come from. They could see
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Speaker 1: people scrambling to get off the roof. But before Thomas
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Speaker 1: and Charles and the other people around them who were
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Speaker 1: watching this happening could figure out what was going on,
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Speaker 1: there was a much louder cracking sound, and suddenly the
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Speaker 1: floor underneath Thomas, Charles and everybody else collapsed, and immediately
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Speaker 1: people on this roof fell all the way to the
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Speaker 1: bottom of this factory fifty five feet below. There weren't
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Speaker 1: loads of floors inside of this factory. Instead, it was
20:21
Speaker 1: basically just one big building fifty five feet high that
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Speaker 1: housed this brick structure right in the center of the
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Speaker 1: factory that was almost as tall as the entire factory.
20:32
Speaker 1: It was almost like the factory was a shell around
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Speaker 1: this brick, smaller structure right in the middle that was
20:38
Speaker 1: like forty feet tall, and so after the ceiling collapses,
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Speaker 1: Thomas he falls, but miraculously, he lands on a wooden
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Speaker 1: beam that stretched across the entire factory like a support beam,
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Speaker 1: and he grabbed onto it, saving himself from falling all
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Speaker 1: the way down. And so Thomas he only fell maybe
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Speaker 1: five feet, so he was okay, but he didn't have
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Speaker 1: but just barely. And so Thomas he turns and he's
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Speaker 1: looking around at what's happened below him, and he's hearing
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Speaker 1: people screaming, and he's hearing the sounds of people running
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Speaker 1: around trying to help those who have hit the ground
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Speaker 1: on the bottom. And Thomas immediately begins scanning for Charles,
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Speaker 1: and he finds him. Charles was one of the other
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Speaker 1: fairly lucky people. At least in Thomas's mind. Charles seemed
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Speaker 1: lucky because instead of falling from the roof all the
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Speaker 1: way to the ground, Charles and fifteen or twenty other
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Speaker 1: people had fallen right onto that brick structure that kind
21:30
Speaker 1: of made up the main part of this factory, and
21:33
Speaker 1: so Charles had only fallen maybe ten or fifteen feet
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Speaker 1: onto this structure, and so Thomas is thinking, oh, Charles
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Speaker 1: and these other people, they've survived this fall. They're okay. However,
21:43
Speaker 1: the second Charles and the others who supposedly were saved
21:48
Speaker 1: by landing on this brick structure, the second they hit
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Speaker 1: that brick structure, despite not suffering catastrophic injuries like broken
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Speaker 1: bones and horrible internal injuries, these people on the brick
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Speaker 1: structure began letting out these primal screams, these just horrible
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Speaker 1: blood curdling screams. And as they did, these loud, popping
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Speaker 1: sounds began coming out of their body, and then their
22:14
Speaker 1: bodies began contorting forward, almost like a bug rolling up
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Speaker 1: onto itself. It would turn out this factory was not
22:22
Speaker 1: a normal factory. This was a glass factory. And in
22:26
Speaker 1: order to make glass, you need to heat sand and
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Speaker 1: some other chemicals up to extraordinarily high temperatures. You need
22:34
Speaker 1: a furnace that can literally burn hotter than lava. And
22:38
Speaker 1: so that brick structure that was housed in the middle
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Speaker 1: of this five story tall factory was a glass furnace
22:45
Speaker 1: and it was on and so even though the inside
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Speaker 1: of this furnace was the hottest place, it was over
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Speaker 1: four thousand degrees fahrenheit. The outside of this furnace, where
22:56
Speaker 1: Charles and the others had landed, believing they were saved
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Speaker 1: from this fifty five foot fall to their death, was
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Speaker 1: still extremely hot, so hot that the factory workers couldn't
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Speaker 1: even go near the furnace, even with special equipment on
23:10
Speaker 1: the way they worked with this furnace was with these
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Speaker 1: long metal pokers. They would work the flames and the
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Speaker 1: glass at a distance. And so the instant that Charles
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Speaker 1: and the others landed on the top of this furnace,
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Speaker 1: they began to light on fire. Those snapping sounds that
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Speaker 1: were coming out of their bodies was the sound of
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Speaker 1: them instantly igniting on fire. And so Thomas and the others,
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Speaker 1: who had initially survived this horrible collapse, watched as Charles
23:37
Speaker 1: and the others shrieked and shrieked, and their bodies continued
23:41
Speaker 1: to contort, and they continued to burn and smolder. And
23:44
Speaker 1: Charles actually he would roll up so tightly that his
23:48
Speaker 1: body began to roll down the curved side of this furnace,
23:52
Speaker 1: and at some point his body slipped into a crack
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Speaker 1: in the furnace and he actually fell into the flames inside,
23:58
Speaker 1: at which point he went side. Around the time that
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Speaker 1: Charles and the others stopped shrieking, a number of people
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Speaker 1: just out on the road heard the commotion and they
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Speaker 1: came inside, and one of them was Thomas's father, and
24:11
Speaker 1: in a terrible twist of fate, he actually looked up
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Speaker 1: and saw his son clinging to the beam Thomas. Except
24:18
Speaker 1: it was so hot inside of this factory that Thomas
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Speaker 1: was sweating, he was losing his grip. It was really
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Speaker 1: hard to hold onto this beam, and his father watched
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Speaker 1: as Thomas lost his grip and fell the ten more
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Speaker 1: feet down onto the furnace exterior. He landed feet first,
24:35
Speaker 1: then he fell into his stomach and his face. He
24:37
Speaker 1: immediately ignited on fire, began shrieking, and then went silent.
24:41
Speaker 1: All told, twenty three people would be killed during this
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Speaker 1: roof collapse, and dozens and dozens more would be horribly
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Speaker 1: injured and disfigured. This collapse goes down as one of
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Speaker 1: the very worst disasters in sports history. However, on this day,
24:58
Speaker 1: the crowd inside the stadium was so caught up in
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Speaker 1: the game that they actually didn't notice this horrible tragedy
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Speaker 1: taking place. Just one hundred feet away from where they were.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't until the end of the game when the
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Speaker 1: winning team's fans carried their players in this kind of
25:13
Speaker 1: spontaneous parade out of the stadium to celebrate that they
25:16
Speaker 1: walked out onto the street and saw all these burnt up,
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Speaker 1: rolled up corpses of the people who had landed on
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Speaker 1: the furnace. In nineteen ninety six, twenty one year old
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Speaker 1: Katie Fleming was studying French at the University of Oregon.
25:43
Speaker 1: That summer, she was invited to go on a camping
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Speaker 1: trip with some very close friends and some people she
25:48
Speaker 1: had not met before. Their destination was this beautiful spot
25:51
Speaker 1: along the Sierra Nevada Mountain range in California, but as
25:55
Speaker 1: soon as they got there, Katie did not take in
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Speaker 1: any of the beautiful scenery. Instead, she fixated solely on
26:01
Speaker 1: twenty five year old James Kim, who was one of
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Speaker 1: those people she had not met before that was going
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Speaker 1: on this trip. And for the people that were on
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Speaker 1: this trip, they would say James and Katie immediately just
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Speaker 1: fell in love with each other, and for the duration
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Speaker 1: of this trip they were inseparable. And then when they
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Speaker 1: got back from this trip, James would actually move from
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Speaker 1: Seattle to Oregon to be with Katie, and then after
26:23
Speaker 1: Katie graduated from college, the two got married in Las
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Speaker 1: Vegas and then settled in San Francisco. James, who loved
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Speaker 1: technology and always had, was quickly hired by a tech
26:33
Speaker 1: company to try out new technology and then write a
26:36
Speaker 1: review for the average consumer. Basically, James got paid to
26:39
Speaker 1: play with toys and so he loved his job. The
26:42
Speaker 1: couple also opened two boutique stores in San Francisco. One
26:46
Speaker 1: was an apothecary and the other sold eccentric clothing, and
26:49
Speaker 1: those two shops were managed by Katie full time. By
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Speaker 1: two thousand and six, the Kim family had become very
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Speaker 1: successful financially and they had grown in size. They had
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Speaker 1: a four year old daughter named Penelope and a seven
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Speaker 1: month old daughter named Sabine. Katie and James both adored
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Speaker 1: their kids, but James especially was known for blowing off
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Speaker 1: virtually everything and anyone to be with his daughters. In fact,
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Speaker 1: his friends and family would say you couldn't even have
27:14
Speaker 1: a conversation with James if his daughters were in the room,
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Speaker 1: because James would get distracted and just stare at his
27:20
Speaker 1: daughters and then would eventually just leave mid conversation to
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Speaker 1: go play with them. James was also known to bring
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Speaker 1: his daughters to work virtually every chance he got, even
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Speaker 1: if it really wasn't allowed at this company. On Friday,
27:32
Speaker 1: November seventeenth, James, Katie, and their two daughters loaded up
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Speaker 1: into their station wagon and then drove north to Seattle.
27:40
Speaker 1: They planned on spending Thanksgiving with James's aunt and uncle
27:42
Speaker 1: who lived in the city, and also, James and Katie
27:45
Speaker 1: were considering leaving San Francisco and moving elsewhere, and Seattle
27:49
Speaker 1: seemed like a natural landing spot for them, so this
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Speaker 1: trip served nicely as a chance to see family and
27:54
Speaker 1: to explore the area, and so late on Friday night,
27:57
Speaker 1: after a very long trip, they finally arrived in Seattle,
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Speaker 1: and for the next couple of days they have a
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Speaker 1: wonderful time visiting with family and having Thanksgiving dinner. On Friday,
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Speaker 1: November twenty fourth, so a day after Thanksgiving, James, Katie
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Speaker 1: and their daughters loaded back up into the station wagon
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Speaker 1: early in the morning. They said bye to James's aunt
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Speaker 1: and uncle, and then they hit the road, but instead
28:17
Speaker 1: of just driving straight all the way to San Francisco,
28:20
Speaker 1: which would have taken the entire day and then some.
28:22
Speaker 1: They decided to make a stop in Portland, Oregon, where
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Speaker 1: one of Katie's very close friends from college was going
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Speaker 1: to meet them for lunch. And so after about three
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Speaker 1: and a half four hours, they arrive in Portland. They
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Speaker 1: meet Katie's friend and they have this nice lunch, and
28:35
Speaker 1: then afterwards the family retired to a hotel where they
28:37
Speaker 1: crashed for the night. The next morning, the plan was
28:40
Speaker 1: originally to just get in the car and then drive
28:43
Speaker 1: all the way back to San Francisco, but Katie suggested
28:46
Speaker 1: to James that instead of just driving all day, why
28:50
Speaker 1: don't we just stay here for part of the day,
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Speaker 1: leave in the afternoon, and we'll stop somewhere between here
28:55
Speaker 1: and home. We'll break up the drive one more time.
28:57
Speaker 1: James thought it was a great idea. They pulled out
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Speaker 1: the map and Katie found a nice, family friendly vacation
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Speaker 1: spot that was almost exactly halfway between where they were
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Speaker 1: at home. It was called the two two Ton Lodge
29:09
Speaker 1: and it was located on the coast of Oregon in
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Speaker 1: a town called Gold Beach. And so James and Katie think, perfect,
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Speaker 1: this is exactly what we needed. Katie calls the lodge
29:18
Speaker 1: and she makes reservations for that night, and so that afternoon,
29:21
Speaker 1: after the family spent their nice day in Portland, they
29:23
Speaker 1: hopped in the car and they began traveling south towards
29:26
Speaker 1: the two to two ton lodge. At about eight thirty pm,
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Speaker 1: the family was still on the road making their way
29:31
Speaker 1: when James got really hungry and said, let's pull over
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Speaker 1: and get a bite to eat. So the family pulls
29:35
Speaker 1: over at a Denny's restaurant in Central Oregon. They go inside,
29:38
Speaker 1: and then after a quick bite to eat, they get
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Speaker 1: back out and they're on the road at nine pm.
29:42
Speaker 1: From the Dennis to the lodge was about a two
29:45
Speaker 1: and a half hour drive, But after driving forward two
29:48
Speaker 1: more hours, James realized they had missed a turn, so
29:51
Speaker 1: they told Katie about it. They looked at the map
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Speaker 1: and they realized if they were to backtrack all the
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Speaker 1: way to that turn, it would add several more hours
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Speaker 1: onto their trip, and so they began looking for an
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Speaker 1: alternative path, and they found one. Instead of going all
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Speaker 1: the way west to the coast and then all the
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Speaker 1: way south to this lodge, which was the original plan,
30:09
Speaker 1: they could just go south from where they were all
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Speaker 1: the way until they were parallel with this lodge, and
30:14
Speaker 1: then from there they could just cut west along this
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Speaker 1: road called Bear Camp Road that would basically go straight
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Speaker 1: to their destination. But what this map did not do
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Speaker 1: a good job of explaining was just how dangerous Bear
30:25
Speaker 1: Camp Road was. It started at nine hundred feet of elevation,
30:29
Speaker 1: but very quickly went all the way up to four
30:32
Speaker 1: thousand feet of elevation before it went over the backside
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Speaker 1: of this mountain down to Gold Beach and where this
30:37
Speaker 1: lodge was. While the road is paved, it's incredibly narrow
30:41
Speaker 1: and it's basically cut into a mountain side, and so
30:43
Speaker 1: there's very steep drop offs throughout most of this ride
30:46
Speaker 1: and there are no guardrails protecting people from falling off.
30:50
Speaker 1: The summer is really the only time people should be
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Speaker 1: on Bear Camp Road, because that's when the road is maintained.
30:56
Speaker 1: In the winter, the road is not plowed, it's not maintained,
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Speaker 1: and so even a light snowstorm could make the road
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Speaker 1: totally impassable. And the road cuts through a very remote
31:05
Speaker 1: section of Oregon where there's just not many people around.
31:09
Speaker 1: So if you get in trouble out there, you're probably
31:11
Speaker 1: on your own. But the Kims were not aware of
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Speaker 1: the dangers this road possessed, and so after going south
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Speaker 1: for a while, they did turn on to Bear Camp
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Speaker 1: Road and began slowly driving up the mountain. And so,
31:21
Speaker 1: as James is driving, Katie falls asleep in the passenger seat.
31:24
Speaker 1: The girls fall asleep and back and outside it begins
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Speaker 1: to snow. An hour later, Katie wakes up from her
31:29
Speaker 1: sleep and the first thing she notices is outside it
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Speaker 1: is snowing so hard that James now has the windshield
31:36
Speaker 1: wipers on full blast, and still you could barely see
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Speaker 1: out the front windshield. She looked at her husband, and
31:41
Speaker 1: he was hunched over, white knuckling the steering wheel, looking
31:44
Speaker 1: intently out the window, and she says to him, you
31:47
Speaker 1: know what's going on? Should we stop? Should we turn around?
31:49
Speaker 1: And James, without even looking at her, says, yeah, honey,
31:52
Speaker 1: I do want to turn around, but the road is
31:54
Speaker 1: so narrow we can't. And then he would tell his
31:57
Speaker 1: wife that earlier they had actually driven through a fork
31:59
Speaker 1: in the road where there was enough space to turn around,
32:03
Speaker 1: and so now he was just hopeful that there'd be
32:05
Speaker 1: another fork somewhere that would allow them to turn around.
32:08
Speaker 1: And so Katie was not excited about the idea, but
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Speaker 1: she trusted James and said, Okay, let's keep going. And
32:13
Speaker 1: so James just continues driving up this mountain pass. And
32:15
Speaker 1: you got to understand they are driving on basically a cliff.
32:19
Speaker 1: On the left side left of James is just a
32:21
Speaker 1: sheer drop off, and the road is totally slick from
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Speaker 1: the snow, and so periodically, as James is driving, even
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Speaker 1: though he's only going about five miles an hour, he
32:30
Speaker 1: would begin to slip and slide, and he's right on
32:32
Speaker 1: the edge of this cliff, and so it was a very,
32:35
Speaker 1: very stressful ride, and after several more miles of this,
32:39
Speaker 1: they were not reaching any turnaround. In fact, they would
32:42
Speaker 1: have to periodically stop on inclines, put up the emergency brake,
32:46
Speaker 1: and one of them would have to get out and
32:48
Speaker 1: clear branches and rocks out of this tiny little road
32:51
Speaker 1: to continue onward. And so finally Katie says to James,
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Speaker 1: you got to stop. You got to back out of here.
32:57
Speaker 1: That's our only choice right now. And so James put
32:59
Speaker 1: the car in reverse and he opens his car door
33:02
Speaker 1: so he can look down at the edge of this cliff.
33:05
Speaker 1: To make sure he doesn't accidentally veer off of it,
33:08
Speaker 1: and so very slowly, without even applying the gas, he
33:11
Speaker 1: began going in reverse making sure he didn't go off
33:13
Speaker 1: the cliff. And for hours and hours they did this.
33:17
Speaker 1: This must have been so stressful. But finally they make
33:21
Speaker 1: it to this fork in the road that James had
33:22
Speaker 1: seen much earlier, and they're able to make a decision.
33:25
Speaker 1: They had two paths they could take. They could turn
33:28
Speaker 1: around completely and drive nose out along the path they
33:31
Speaker 1: came in on all the way to the highway, but
33:33
Speaker 1: that was a very far drive, and they knew that
33:36
Speaker 1: road was treacherous and there was a cliff drop off
33:39
Speaker 1: and it was really just as dangerous as what they
33:40
Speaker 1: had been on, and they really were not keen to
33:42
Speaker 1: be on that road considering the weather. Or they could
33:45
Speaker 1: turn left and go down the mountain on this path
33:48
Speaker 1: that was way wider than the paths they were on.
33:51
Speaker 1: It was like this huge road and it looked like
33:53
Speaker 1: it went straight to the bottom of the mountain, and
33:55
Speaker 1: they're thinking, we don't know where this goes. The signage
33:58
Speaker 1: is not clear where this goes. But you got to
34:00
Speaker 1: figure if you're going lower in elevation, the weather will
34:03
Speaker 1: not be as bad. And maybe if you go down
34:06
Speaker 1: this road there'll be houses, or there'll be a gas station,
34:08
Speaker 1: or there'll be something. But whatever it is, it's probably
34:11
Speaker 1: better than going that way or that way. And so
34:13
Speaker 1: James turned the car and began driving down this new road. Unfortunately,
34:17
Speaker 1: this was the worst choice they could have made. This
34:20
Speaker 1: road they were now on was this long winding dead
34:24
Speaker 1: end that was used by loggers in the summer. Now,
34:26
Speaker 1: normally this mistake by the Kim family would have been
34:29
Speaker 1: caught because there was supposed to be a big yellow
34:32
Speaker 1: gate that sat across this road, just a little ways
34:36
Speaker 1: past this fork, blocking all traffic from proceeding any further.
34:40
Speaker 1: But vandals had recently come up and cut the lock
34:43
Speaker 1: on this gate, swung it open, and then locked it open.
34:46
Speaker 1: So the gate is completely off the road, and so
34:48
Speaker 1: as the Kims drove past where they normally would have
34:51
Speaker 1: been stopped, they didn't even see a gate. There was
34:53
Speaker 1: no gate anywhere, and so they just kept on driving.
34:56
Speaker 1: And from where this gate should have been, the road
34:58
Speaker 1: went from paved to dirt and full of potholes, and
35:02
Speaker 1: it narrowed considerably. The couple drove for fifteen miles on
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Speaker 1: this very tight, winding road that once again was on
35:09
Speaker 1: a cliff side, until finally they reached another fork in
35:12
Speaker 1: the road where they could either go right or they
35:14
Speaker 1: could go straight, but there was no sign telling them
35:16
Speaker 1: which way led to what, and so James stopped the
35:18
Speaker 1: car right in the middle of this intersection, and he
35:21
Speaker 1: and Katie look at each other and they know they're
35:22
Speaker 1: in trouble. So they get their phones out and they
35:24
Speaker 1: try calling for help, but they have no service, and
35:27
Speaker 1: so as they're struggling to place calls, one of them
35:30
Speaker 1: realizes it's no longer snowing. It's actually raining, and a
35:33
Speaker 1: lot of the snow on the ground seems to be
35:35
Speaker 1: getting washed away. And so after not being able to
35:37
Speaker 1: place calls for several minutes, they decide, you know what,
35:40
Speaker 1: it's two in the morning. We're tired. Let's sleep here.
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Speaker 1: We'll leave the car running. It'll be nice and warm,
35:45
Speaker 1: and when we wake up in the morning, this rain
35:48
Speaker 1: will most likely have washed away the snow and we
35:50
Speaker 1: can just drive out of here. And so the two
35:52
Speaker 1: are kind of relieved as they're saying this out loud,
35:55
Speaker 1: that this situation is not nearly as bad as it
35:57
Speaker 1: seems will be just fine, and so Kadi James, their
36:00
Speaker 1: two daughters. They fall asleep with the car running. It's
36:03
Speaker 1: nice and warm, and when they wake up, Katie and
36:05
Speaker 1: James realize it's gotten much much worse. At some point
36:09
Speaker 1: in the night after they fell asleep, the temperature must
36:11
Speaker 1: have dropped again, and that rain became very heavy snow,
36:15
Speaker 1: and so all the water on the ground froze, and
36:17
Speaker 1: then almost a foot of snow fell on top of it.
36:20
Speaker 1: They were stuck, but Katie and James they didn't panic
36:23
Speaker 1: because they remembered when they first turned onto Bear Camp Road,
36:27
Speaker 1: they had seen a plow truck parked off of the
36:29
Speaker 1: side of the road, and so to them that meant
36:32
Speaker 1: if it snowed along Bear Camp Road, it would get plowed.
36:35
Speaker 1: And so that day the Kims just stayed inside of
36:38
Speaker 1: their car and they ate snacks and they read books,
36:40
Speaker 1: and they kept the heater on and they waited to
36:42
Speaker 1: be rescued. But over the course of that entire day,
36:45
Speaker 1: nobody came down that road, no plows, no anybody. And
36:48
Speaker 1: Katie and James continuously tried their cell phones to try
36:51
Speaker 1: to punch out and get some help, but they never
36:53
Speaker 1: had any service. Also, Katie and James continuously honked the
36:57
Speaker 1: horn in case someone was in the area that might
36:59
Speaker 1: hear them, but no one ever came to their rescue.
37:02
Speaker 1: And so by the end of that Sunday night, Katie
37:04
Speaker 1: and James were really starting to get worried because they
37:07
Speaker 1: have a four year old and a seven month old.
37:09
Speaker 1: They cannot be out here for very much longer. But
37:12
Speaker 1: they began to tell each other that, you know what,
37:13
Speaker 1: it's Sunday. Maybe the plows don't come through on Sundays.
37:17
Speaker 1: Maybe they just don't work out here on Sundays, And
37:19
Speaker 1: so tomorrow, Monday, the plows will be out here. They'll
37:23
Speaker 1: come by and they will save us. Also, Katie and
37:25
Speaker 1: James began telling each other to reassure each other that, hey, tomorrow, Monday,
37:31
Speaker 1: that's the day we were supposed to be back in
37:33
Speaker 1: San Francisco, and so people are bound to notice our
37:36
Speaker 1: absence and they will report it to police, and they
37:38
Speaker 1: will come out here and they will save us. So
37:40
Speaker 1: tomorrow we are going to get found. And so Katie
37:42
Speaker 1: and James they put their two daughters in their car
37:44
Speaker 1: seats and James read them some bedtime stories and then
37:47
Speaker 1: the family fell asleep. The next day, Monday, the family
37:50
Speaker 1: did a lot of the same things they did the
37:52
Speaker 1: day before. They sat in their car, they kept spirits high.
37:55
Speaker 1: They tried to use their cell phones, which didn't work.
37:57
Speaker 1: They honked their horns to get people's attention, that didn't work.
38:00
Speaker 1: They tried to ration their food, and the whole time,
38:03
Speaker 1: they're keeping their eyes up each side of this road
38:05
Speaker 1: they're on in hopes a plow comes through. But all
38:09
Speaker 1: day long, no trucks, no plows, nothing comes down this road. Meanwhile,
38:13
Speaker 1: back in San Francisco, the family's absence was noticed by
38:17
Speaker 1: a family friend, but they didn't report it to police
38:20
Speaker 1: because they figured the Kim family had just decided to
38:22
Speaker 1: stay out a little bit longer and they would be
38:25
Speaker 1: back soon. By Monday night, Katie and James were officially terrified.
38:29
Speaker 1: They were almost out of fuel in their car. They
38:31
Speaker 1: were almost out of food. In fact, to compensate for
38:34
Speaker 1: their low amount of food, Katie had begun not only
38:37
Speaker 1: breastfeeding her seven month old, but also began breastfeeding her
38:40
Speaker 1: four year old also. Outside of their car, bears began
38:44
Speaker 1: kind of assembling and checking them out, and at first
38:47
Speaker 1: Katie and James would scream and yell and try to
38:49
Speaker 1: scare them off, but the bears ultimately were not that
38:52
Speaker 1: phased by them. They were not aggressive, but it meant
38:54
Speaker 1: the family did not feel comfortable getting out of their car,
38:57
Speaker 1: and so they're in this very claustrophobic situation where they
39:00
Speaker 1: are literally trapped inside of this small car where all
39:03
Speaker 1: the windows are covered with snow, and they can't go anywhere,
39:06
Speaker 1: they can't call anyone, they're running out of their supplies.
39:09
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a terrifying situation to be in.
39:12
Speaker 1: Katie and James had been really strong to this point,
39:15
Speaker 1: but around this time they began to act scared, and
39:18
Speaker 1: their kids picked up on it and they started acting
39:21
Speaker 1: scared and fearful, and so the parents were trying their
39:23
Speaker 1: best to calm them down and tell them everything's going
39:25
Speaker 1: to be fine and they're going to get out of
39:27
Speaker 1: here soon. But in reality, Katie and James knew that
39:30
Speaker 1: if they didn't get found soon, they were probably gonna die.
39:33
Speaker 1: The next day when they woke up, which was Tuesday, again,
39:37
Speaker 1: no cars or trucks came down either road. There was
39:39
Speaker 1: no plows, the snow just continued to pile up, and
39:42
Speaker 1: the food was running unbelievably low, to the point where
39:45
Speaker 1: James actually left the car and went out looking for
39:48
Speaker 1: bear droppings, because there's bears all over the place now,
39:52
Speaker 1: and he would pull the berries out of their droppings,
39:54
Speaker 1: and he and Katie began eating those, but after a
39:57
Speaker 1: while they decided that was not a good idea because
40:00
Speaker 1: they might poison themselves. Their daughters, who the day before
40:03
Speaker 1: had been acting out out of fear and anxiety, were
40:06
Speaker 1: now lethargic and quiet, and the parents' response to this
40:09
Speaker 1: was to start fighting with each other about whose fault
40:11
Speaker 1: this was, when in reality they were just totally scared
40:15
Speaker 1: about what might happen to them. Meanwhile, back in San Francisco,
40:18
Speaker 1: the family had still not been reported to police, and
40:21
Speaker 1: so that night, Tuesday night, the Kim family once again
40:24
Speaker 1: huddled up inside of their car. James read the kid's books,
40:27
Speaker 1: and then they all fell asleep. The next morning, Wednesday,
40:30
Speaker 1: they ran out of gas for their car, and so
40:31
Speaker 1: they had no way to heat themselves, and so James
40:34
Speaker 1: got the spare tire out of the back of the
40:36
Speaker 1: car and he rounded up some magazines inside of the
40:38
Speaker 1: car and he lit a fire for the family to
40:40
Speaker 1: stand around and try to warm up by and it worked,
40:43
Speaker 1: but the fire very quickly died out, and they couldn't
40:45
Speaker 1: find any wood that wasn't soaking wet to put on it,
40:48
Speaker 1: and so before long they did not have a fire.
40:50
Speaker 1: And so all day that day, James and Katie were
40:53
Speaker 1: desperately looking up the road in hopes that a car
40:56
Speaker 1: or truck would come through. They never did. James and
40:59
Speaker 1: Katy tried their cell phones repeatedly, but they never got service.
41:02
Speaker 1: They hanked their horns and they screamed out for help,
41:04
Speaker 1: but nobody heard them, and so before long it was
41:07
Speaker 1: dark again, and the family was huddled up inside of
41:09
Speaker 1: their now freezing car, and all they could hear outside
41:12
Speaker 1: was the sounds of bears marching around the area. And
41:15
Speaker 1: so I'm sure James and Katy thought to themselves, I
41:17
Speaker 1: wonderful survived the night. Meanwhile, back in San Francisco, that
41:21
Speaker 1: family friend who had noticed the Kims were gone on Monday,
41:24
Speaker 1: she did go to the police on Wednesday afternoon and
41:27
Speaker 1: reported them missing, and so a search party was being
41:29
Speaker 1: organized that night. But of course the Kim family would
41:32
Speaker 1: have no way of knowing that. The next morning, Thursday,
41:35
Speaker 1: the Kim family woke up, they survived the night, but
41:38
Speaker 1: at this point James and Katie are speaking openly about
41:41
Speaker 1: the real possibility that they all might die. In fact,
41:44
Speaker 1: Katie says to James, you have to promise me, if
41:47
Speaker 1: our two kids die out here, you have to kill
41:50
Speaker 1: me too, and James said he would. At this point,
41:53
Speaker 1: Katie and James do not believe a truck or car
41:56
Speaker 1: or anything is going to drive down this road and
41:58
Speaker 1: save them. They believe they're own. The only hope of
42:00
Speaker 1: being rescued is by sending a smoke signal up into
42:03
Speaker 1: the air that a pilot might see. So they pull
42:06
Speaker 1: off all four tires of their car, and then they
42:08
Speaker 1: pull everything out of the car that might burn, and
42:10
Speaker 1: they stack that on the tires, and that included Penelope's
42:14
Speaker 1: prized stuffed lamb. And then once they have their big pile,
42:17
Speaker 1: they lit it on fire, and fairly quickly a large, black,
42:20
Speaker 1: billowing cloud of smoke was going straight up to the sky,
42:23
Speaker 1: and for a minute, the Kim family was very optimistic
42:26
Speaker 1: that they were about to be found, that certainly someone
42:29
Speaker 1: was going to see the smoke and come find them,
42:31
Speaker 1: But unfortunately the fire burned up very quickly. They couldn't
42:35
Speaker 1: light it again, and nobody flew overhead, and so before
42:38
Speaker 1: long the family is once again huddled inside of their
42:41
Speaker 1: freezing cold car. That night, there's bears walking around outside.
42:45
Speaker 1: They're basically out of food. Their kids aren't even crying anymore.
42:48
Speaker 1: They're just silent and cold and miserable. And as they're
42:51
Speaker 1: all shivering and trying to stay warm, James realizes he
42:55
Speaker 1: needs to do something drastic or his family's going to die.
42:57
Speaker 1: And so the next morning, Friday, when they get up,
43:00
Speaker 1: James tells Katie that he had been studying the map
43:03
Speaker 1: and there's a town about four miles east called Galise
43:06
Speaker 1: that he believes he can get to in about two hours.
43:09
Speaker 1: Katie immediately said, no, you cannot leave us. We need
43:12
Speaker 1: you here. There's probably a search party out there looking
43:15
Speaker 1: for us right now. We need to stay together so
43:18
Speaker 1: we can all be found. But James's instincts were telling
43:21
Speaker 1: him that no one was coming for them, or no
43:23
Speaker 1: one was going to actually find them in time, and
43:26
Speaker 1: so their only hope was if he ventured off and
43:28
Speaker 1: found help. And so Katie finally reluctantly agrees to let
43:32
Speaker 1: him go because he seemed really confident. And so at
43:34
Speaker 1: seven forty five am that morning, James gave his two
43:38
Speaker 1: daughters a big hug and a kiss, told them he
43:40
Speaker 1: loved them and he would see them soon. And then
43:42
Speaker 1: he hugged his wife and said he loved her, and
43:43
Speaker 1: then he turned around and walked up the road out
43:45
Speaker 1: of sight. At the same time, unbeknownst to the Kim family,
43:49
Speaker 1: hundreds of searchers and helicopters are all over Bear Camp
43:53
Speaker 1: Road looking for them. Two days later, on Sunday, December third,
43:56
Speaker 1: so a week after the family had originally gotten stuck,
43:59
Speaker 1: helicopter pilot that was part of the search effort was
44:02
Speaker 1: flying around Bear Camp Road when he noticed footprints in
44:05
Speaker 1: the snow below. When he started following these footprints, and
44:08
Speaker 1: eventually the footprints kind of disappeared under some trees, and
44:11
Speaker 1: then he couldn't pick them up again, and so without
44:14
Speaker 1: that much fuel left, he decided he would just backtrack
44:16
Speaker 1: and follow the footprints back to their origin. And so
44:19
Speaker 1: he retraced these footprints for quite a while until he
44:22
Speaker 1: came to a clearing and in the middle of the
44:24
Speaker 1: clearing was a car, and next to the car was
44:27
Speaker 1: Katie waving an umbrella back and forth. The pilot immediately
44:30
Speaker 1: knew who he was looking at, but he didn't have
44:32
Speaker 1: enough fuel to actually land and pick her and her
44:35
Speaker 1: family up, and so instead he just hovered down as
44:37
Speaker 1: low as he could, and he made good eye contact
44:39
Speaker 1: with her to reassure her that I see you and
44:42
Speaker 1: we're coming for you, and then he marked on the
44:44
Speaker 1: map where they were. He flew off to the search headquarters,
44:47
Speaker 1: and just minutes later another helicopter was spun up. They
44:50
Speaker 1: flew to that same location and they were able to
44:53
Speaker 1: land in that clearing, and as soon as the pilot
44:55
Speaker 1: got out, he saw Katie running up to him, carrying
44:58
Speaker 1: her two daughters, who looked like they were in pretty
45:00
Speaker 1: good shape. And she's crying tears of joy, and she's
45:02
Speaker 1: thanking him profusely, and then when she's right up in
45:05
Speaker 1: front of him, she says, you know, are you here
45:07
Speaker 1: because of my husband? Did James tell you where we were?
45:10
Speaker 1: And the pilot looked visibly confused. Katie picked up on it,
45:13
Speaker 1: and she explained how just two days earlier, James had
45:16
Speaker 1: left to go to the town of Galise to get help,
45:19
Speaker 1: and he still hadn't come back yet. And so at
45:21
Speaker 1: this point the pilot understood what was happening, and so
45:24
Speaker 1: he looked down and he said, no, ma'am, we still
45:26
Speaker 1: have not found James. Katie was devastated and she cried
45:30
Speaker 1: as she and her daughters were loaded into the helicopter
45:33
Speaker 1: and airlifted out of the forest and brought to a
45:35
Speaker 1: hospital there they would make full recoveries. Meanwhile, the search effort,
45:39
Speaker 1: which had been all over Bear Camp Road, was suddenly
45:42
Speaker 1: focused exclusively on the area around where their car was,
45:46
Speaker 1: and professional trackers were brought in to look for James's tracks,
45:50
Speaker 1: and they found them fairly quickly and began following them.
45:53
Speaker 1: James after departing his family to go look for help,
45:56
Speaker 1: which must have been the most difficult decision he had
45:59
Speaker 1: ever made in his entire life. He loved his family
46:01
Speaker 1: more than anything, and he had to abandon them in
46:04
Speaker 1: the middle of the wilderness with no food, with no power,
46:07
Speaker 1: and he has no idea to'll ever see them again.
46:09
Speaker 1: And so after leaving them behind, he walked three miles
46:12
Speaker 1: up the road they came in on, and then instead
46:15
Speaker 1: of just continuing on that road in the direction of Galise,
46:18
Speaker 1: he deviated and walked off the road. He actually went
46:21
Speaker 1: straight down one of the cliffs until he hit a river,
46:24
Speaker 1: and it's believed that maybe he saw the river from
46:27
Speaker 1: up on the road and thought that would be a
46:28
Speaker 1: faster way to get to Galase. But either way, he
46:31
Speaker 1: got down to the river, and as he walked, he
46:34
Speaker 1: would leave behind him little bits of torn clothing and
46:37
Speaker 1: torn paper to create a trail of where he was going,
46:40
Speaker 1: presumably so if he needed to he could backtrack to
46:43
Speaker 1: his family. And so he gets down to this river
46:45
Speaker 1: and for several miles he walks downstream, and then after
46:48
Speaker 1: being gone for at least two hours and not reaching
46:51
Speaker 1: the town of Galise, he must have realized he had
46:54
Speaker 1: either gone the wrong way and that's why he had
46:56
Speaker 1: not hit the town, or he had miscalculated the distance
46:59
Speaker 1: and that's that's why he had not hit the town.
47:01
Speaker 1: But either way, he did not turn around and go
47:04
Speaker 1: back to his family. Instead, he pressed on, believing he
47:07
Speaker 1: was their only hope. And so on he went, crossing
47:10
Speaker 1: over rivers, getting totally soaked in frigid water. He went
47:13
Speaker 1: up and down mountains, all over these totally rugged areas
47:16
Speaker 1: in nothing but street clothes. He had sneakers, pants, and
47:19
Speaker 1: a jacket on. He had no food, he had no water,
47:22
Speaker 1: and he just kept on going until it was nightfall,
47:25
Speaker 1: and he had covered about ten miles at this point,
47:27
Speaker 1: and he laid down and he went to sleep. And
47:29
Speaker 1: that night must have been absolutely horrible as he thought
47:32
Speaker 1: about his family that was alone in the woods somewhere.
47:35
Speaker 1: He probably wondered if they were still alive. And the
47:38
Speaker 1: temperature was in the thirties. And again he's just in
47:40
Speaker 1: street clothes, but he survives the night. And so the
47:43
Speaker 1: next morning, that Saturday, he gets up and he's right
47:45
Speaker 1: back at it, despite the fact that he was physically
47:48
Speaker 1: wrecked at this point, but for him, he didn't care.
47:51
Speaker 1: He was doing it for his family. And so all
47:53
Speaker 1: day he hiked in and out of freezing cold streams,
47:56
Speaker 1: up and down mountains until finally he found himself at
47:59
Speaker 1: the bottom of this deep ravine next to a river,
48:02
Speaker 1: where he just fell to his knees, fell forward, and died.
48:05
Speaker 1: He had literally just kept on going, looking for help
48:08
Speaker 1: for his family until he eventually succumbed to hypothermia. James's
48:12
Speaker 1: body was located two days after his wife and his
48:15
Speaker 1: daughters were successfully rescued. It would turn out the town
48:19
Speaker 1: of Galise was not four miles away from the family's car.
48:22
Speaker 1: It was about fifteen miles away. But that's from point
48:25
Speaker 1: A to point B on a map, like a straight line.
48:28
Speaker 1: But when you actually are hiking in the wilderness, you
48:30
Speaker 1: don't go in straight lines because there's mountains and there's rivers,
48:33
Speaker 1: and there's things that get in the way. And so
48:35
Speaker 1: in order to get to Galise from where their car was,
48:38
Speaker 1: James would have had to travel thirty or forty miles,
48:41
Speaker 1: zigging and zagging up over four different mountains, and so
48:45
Speaker 1: this was a suicide mission from the start. James ultimately
48:48
Speaker 1: covered sixteen miles through some of the most treacherous terrain
48:51
Speaker 1: in the country, wearing nothing but his street clothes. The
48:54
Speaker 1: professional trackers that followed this sixteen mile trail to his body,
48:58
Speaker 1: they called his journey superhuman. The helicopter pilot would later
49:02
Speaker 1: say he never would have found Katie and the girls
49:05
Speaker 1: had he not spotted those footprints first and then traced
49:08
Speaker 1: them all the way back to that clearing. And it
49:11
Speaker 1: would turn out those footprints were made by James after
49:14
Speaker 1: he left his family and walked off to get help,
49:17
Speaker 1: and so even though it cost him his life, James
49:19
Speaker 1: did ultimately save his family. In early twenty twenty, a
49:37
Speaker 1: very popular Russian Instagram influencer named Ektorina Didenko was getting
49:41
Speaker 1: ready to celebrate her twenty ninth birthday. She, along with
49:44
Speaker 1: her husband and some of her influencer friends, were planning
49:47
Speaker 1: to enjoy the occasion at a popular spa in Moscow, Russia.
49:51
Speaker 1: The group rented out a private section of the spa
49:53
Speaker 1: that included a steam room and a small indoor pool,
49:56
Speaker 1: and then once the reservations were made, Didenko and all
49:59
Speaker 1: of her influence her friends began eagerly talking about how
50:02
Speaker 1: excited they were about this party on their various social
50:05
Speaker 1: media accounts. When the day finally came February twenty eighth,
50:08
Speaker 1: which was Dadenko's birthday, Toadenko, her husband, and the eight
50:12
Speaker 1: other people they invited, they all descended on this spot.
50:16
Speaker 1: So they go inside, they go back to their private area,
50:18
Speaker 1: and it's great. There's food, there's alcohol, there's music. They're
50:22
Speaker 1: jumping into the pool and getting in the hot tub,
50:24
Speaker 1: and everyone's just having a great time. Everyone's taking pictures
50:27
Speaker 1: and filming and live streaming. I mean, it's really going
50:30
Speaker 1: as well as it possibly could be. And then at
50:32
Speaker 1: some point Tadenko's husband signals the rest of the group
50:35
Speaker 1: minus Dadenko, and they all begin to pull out these
50:38
Speaker 1: white hazardous material suits. Imagine what you would see in
50:42
Speaker 1: a movie if there was some huge chemical leak, a
50:44
Speaker 1: full body white suit with a mask. And so they're
50:47
Speaker 1: all putting on these hazmat suits and they give one
50:50
Speaker 1: to Dadenko, who puts it on as well, and they
50:52
Speaker 1: tell her this is part of her big surprise. Now
50:54
Speaker 1: it's unclear if Dadenko actually didn't know what was going
50:58
Speaker 1: to happen next, or if she just pretends to be
51:00
Speaker 1: surprised because it would do better on social media because
51:03
Speaker 1: this is all being filmed and she's an influencer. But
51:06
Speaker 1: either way, she puts on her hazmat suit. And once
51:08
Speaker 1: everyone has their suits on, Dadanko's husband wheeled in this
51:12
Speaker 1: huge cooler like you would bring to a picnic, and
51:15
Speaker 1: he placed it right on the edge of the pool.
51:17
Speaker 1: When he opened the lid, the crowd all gasped and
51:20
Speaker 1: laughed and smiled and filmed as these huge clouds of
51:24
Speaker 1: smoke or steam came pouring out of it. What it
51:27
Speaker 1: was was roughly fifty five pounds of dry ice. Dry
51:31
Speaker 1: ice is just frozen carbon dioxide. It's commonly used for
51:35
Speaker 1: things like refrigerating perishable goods for long periods of time
51:39
Speaker 1: because dry ice stays cold for a really long time.
51:42
Speaker 1: Also because of the huge white gas clouds that come
51:45
Speaker 1: off of dry ice, it's also very commonly used as
51:48
Speaker 1: a sort of spooky decoration because he had these very
51:51
Speaker 1: cool white clouds going everywhere. And in fact, that's what
51:54
Speaker 1: Tadanko's husband planned to use this dry ice for. He
51:57
Speaker 1: was going to dump it into the pool and create
52:00
Speaker 1: those big white gas clouds all over the pool. The
52:03
Speaker 1: reason they call it dry ice is because as it
52:05
Speaker 1: starts to heat up, it doesn't melt into a liquid
52:08
Speaker 1: state the way frozen water does. Instead, it goes directly
52:12
Speaker 1: from a solid state to a gas state. Dry ice
52:15
Speaker 1: is considered to be quite hazardous if it's handled inappropriately.
52:19
Speaker 1: And while these partygoers all had their hazmat suits on,
52:22
Speaker 1: it's unlikely they were actually wearing them for safety. It's
52:25
Speaker 1: far more likely they were wearing them because it would
52:28
Speaker 1: look good on social media and would kind of hype
52:30
Speaker 1: up the stunt they were about to do. And so
52:32
Speaker 1: after the dry ice was revealed inside of this cooler,
52:35
Speaker 1: Tadenko's husband and another of the partygoers grabbed the sides
52:39
Speaker 1: of the cooler, and they dumped its contents directly into
52:42
Speaker 1: the water, and as soon as the dry ice hit
52:45
Speaker 1: the water, it rapidly began to warm up, which caused
52:49
Speaker 1: a massive, almost explosion of carbon dioxide gas to completely
52:54
Speaker 1: fill the lower half of the room. Now, none of
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Speaker 1: the partygoers are even a little bit phazed by what's happening.
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Speaker 1: They don't realize how dangerous this actually is, and so
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Speaker 1: they're just filming and laughing and kind of thinking this
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Speaker 1: is so funny. And then Didenko's husband actually leaps through
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Speaker 1: the cloud into the water and kind of disappears below,
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Speaker 1: and then shortly after that, two other partygoers would also
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Speaker 1: leap into the pool. One of the main reasons dry
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Speaker 1: ice is considered to be so hazardous if handled inappropriately,
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Speaker 1: is because dry ice emits that carbon dioxide gas, which
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Speaker 1: at high concentrations will displace oxygen. So imagine if you're
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Speaker 1: in a very small room that has very poor ventilation,
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Speaker 1: if you had lots of carbon dioxide in there, you
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Speaker 1: would suffocate. And so this indoor pool was a small,
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Speaker 1: confined space with poor ventilation, and so the seven people
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Speaker 1: on the pool deck shortly after this dry ice has
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Speaker 1: been tossed into the pool. They started to realize it
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Speaker 1: was really hard to breathe because the oxygen was basically
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Speaker 1: being sucked out of the room, and so they were
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Speaker 1: able to turn and actually run out of the pool
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Speaker 1: deck before it was too late. Meanwhile, Todayenko's husband and
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Speaker 1: the other two people who leapt into the pool, when
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Speaker 1: they came back to the surface, they breathed in, thinking
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Speaker 1: they would be breathing in oxygen, but instead they breathed
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Speaker 1: in an entire lung full of carbon dioxide, which, in
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Speaker 1: addition to displacing oxygen at higher concentrations inside of confined
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Speaker 1: spaces with poor ventilation, it is also poisonous at higher
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Speaker 1: concentrations inside of confined spaces with poor ventilation, and so
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Speaker 1: when the three of them surfaced, they breathed in this
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Speaker 1: poisonous gas, which caused two of them to immediately pass
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Speaker 1: out and then just die, while the third Didenko's husband,
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Speaker 1: He managed to stay conscious enough that he was able
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Speaker 1: to climb barely out of the pool, and he tried
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Speaker 1: to get to the door, but he couldn't get out
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Speaker 1: in time. Eventually he was pulled out and rushed to
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Speaker 1: the hospital, but he would later die not only from
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Speaker 1: carbon dioxide poisoning, but also from having gone without oxygen
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